Business and Human Rights Workshop with Roger McElrath Students will gain a practical approach to helping companies, particularly transnational food-and-agriculture companies, make sense of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, and take practical steps to assess human-rights risks in their global operations.
As Associate Director at BSR, Roger has nearly 15 years of experience advising some of the world’s largest brands on a broad range of social, labor, and environmental issues—from factory working conditions, to migrant labor in agricultural production, to living wage across global supply chains. Few people in the world today have more practical, hands-on […]
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Business and Finance Metrics for Sustainability Impact: A Practitioner’s Approach Gabriel Thoumi’s experience spans 16 years, 6 continents, working in 27 countries implementing sustainable investment strategies for capital markets, government agencies, and NGOs. At USAID he developed climate mitigation risk methodologies. At Forest Carbon Offsets he was instrumental in developing many of the first REDD+ […]
Should development mean something different in Latin America than in the rest of the world? The purpose of this talk is to consider not only the challenges -- economic, political, social and even environmental -- in the path ahead for Latin America and its member nations, but also to ponder on the reasons for its […]
Mike Toffel Associate Professor of Business Administration, Center for Harvard University Co-Sponsor: Ross Strategy View other colloquia events
Jeff York Assistant Professor, Shane Faculty Scholar, University of Colorado Boulder "It's Not Easy Building Green: How Community Logics Impact the Emergency of Hybrid Market Categories" Abstract: An emerging body of scholarship examines the emergence of market categories, including those that enable environmentally beneficial practices and technologies. The acceptance and growth of such new categories […]
Shon Hiatt Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Co-Sponsor: Ross Strategy View other colloquia events
Klaus Weber Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Co-Sponsor: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) View other colloquia events
Rob Klassen Professor, Deans' Office, Operations Management; Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research, Ivey School of Business, Western University Canada View other colloquia events
